Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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THE TORTURE AND DELIVERANCE OF MAJID KHAN, CHAPTER 5 // PETE’S CANDY STORE // TONIGHT
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
THE TORTURE AND DELIVERANCE OF MAJID KHAN, CHAPTER 5 // PETE’S CANDY STORE // TONIGHT
Noooooooo we need you to be a doctor or an engineer
November 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Noooooooo we need you to be a doctor or an engineer
Whatever else, I will have made an Isaac Babel reference in a Marvel comic concerning a character from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Whatever else, I will have made an Isaac Babel reference in a Marvel comic concerning a character from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
My entire 10-issue run on IRON MAN is now available on Marvel Unlimited! You can read Tony Stark and Doctor Doom talk about semiconductor power capacitance/their dicks
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My entire 10-issue run on IRON MAN is now available on Marvel Unlimited! You can read Tony Stark and Doctor Doom talk about semiconductor power capacitance/their dicks
Pardon, I was running to get my kids from school and outpaced my reasoning. This is Rear Adm. Paul Lanzilotta, commander of the Ford strike group. He will soon be tasked with executing illegal orders. We will see whether Professional Military Education instilled in him the integrity to refuse.
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Pardon, I was running to get my kids from school and outpaced my reasoning. This is Rear Adm. Paul Lanzilotta, commander of the Ford strike group. He will soon be tasked with executing illegal orders. We will see whether Professional Military Education instilled in him the integrity to refuse.
The Peace President is sending the Ford carrier strike group to illegally murder Venezuelan, Colombian, Trinidadian etc fishermen. Let’s see if the Ford commander is going to obey illegal orders
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Peace President is sending the Ford carrier strike group to illegally murder Venezuelan, Colombian, Trinidadian etc fishermen. Let’s see if the Ford commander is going to obey illegal orders
REIGN OF TERROR // 2021 // I TRIED, YOU GUYS, I REALLY DID
October 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
REIGN OF TERROR // 2021 // I TRIED, YOU GUYS, I REALLY DID
Picked up Justice League International #11 and learned that Batman did a 9/11
September 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Picked up Justice League International #11 and learned that Batman did a 9/11
The collector’s item of tomorrow. Get em while supplies last. I’ll find a way to sign for u
September 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The collector’s item of tomorrow. Get em while supplies last. I’ll find a way to sign for u
It gives me no pleasure to report that he does indeed have that shit on
September 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It gives me no pleasure to report that he does indeed have that shit on
Absolute masterclass in comics from @mattbors.bsky.social & @tristanwright.bsky.social. SENTIAC a breakout character. TOXIC CRUSADERS is something special.
September 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Absolute masterclass in comics from @mattbors.bsky.social & @tristanwright.bsky.social. SENTIAC a breakout character. TOXIC CRUSADERS is something special.
It’s a grim world, post-copyeditor
September 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It’s a grim world, post-copyeditor
Might not be the greatest time to have a political talk in an outdoor setting, but if you’re at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday at noon, come on by the 32nd Street Stage!
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Might not be the greatest time to have a political talk in an outdoor setting, but if you’re at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday at noon, come on by the 32nd Street Stage!
Hey Baltimore. Want to talk about the lineage of all this cascading, compounding, militarized social repression? And maybe also talk about representing it in popular fiction? Come out on Saturday to the 32nd St Stage of the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday at noon!
September 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hey Baltimore. Want to talk about the lineage of all this cascading, compounding, militarized social repression? And maybe also talk about representing it in popular fiction? Come out on Saturday to the 32nd St Stage of the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday at noon!
Happy Labor Day! This from Sven Beckert’s forthcoming CAPITALISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY details capitalists’ deliberate sabotage of knowledge production amongst the late 19th century coalescing industrial working class in order to cement their control and exploitation.
September 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Happy Labor Day! This from Sven Beckert’s forthcoming CAPITALISM: A GLOBAL HISTORY details capitalists’ deliberate sabotage of knowledge production amongst the late 19th century coalescing industrial working class in order to cement their control and exploitation.
Approaching the satire/reality collapse
August 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Approaching the satire/reality collapse
Bowser’s strategy is to collaborate and throw DC to the fucking wolves?!? No hell is hot enough!
August 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Bowser’s strategy is to collaborate and throw DC to the fucking wolves?!? No hell is hot enough!
“No one pays attention to us”
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“No one pays attention to us”
I employed my writerly power of Subtlety
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I employed my writerly power of Subtlety
Best of all, I got to sign off with this.
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Best of all, I got to sign off with this.
It’s here: IRON MAN #10, the last issue of my run. Thanks to everyone who checked it out. For everyone else, if you like critiques of surveillance capitalism, technocratic liberalism, private equity, great-power competition and the spy agencies in your superhero stories, pick it up in collected form
July 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s here: IRON MAN #10, the last issue of my run. Thanks to everyone who checked it out. For everyone else, if you like critiques of surveillance capitalism, technocratic liberalism, private equity, great-power competition and the spy agencies in your superhero stories, pick it up in collected form
A heartwarming novel about robots and food that you’ll really like by @annaleen.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A heartwarming novel about robots and food that you’ll really like by @annaleen.bsky.social
Senior ICE official Peter Hatch didn't just testify that ICE relied on Canary Mission's slanderous lists to identify pro-Palestinian demonstrators to detain and attempt to deport. It also relied on Zionist extremist group Betar's lists.
July 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Senior ICE official Peter Hatch didn't just testify that ICE relied on Canary Mission's slanderous lists to identify pro-Palestinian demonstrators to detain and attempt to deport. It also relied on Zionist extremist group Betar's lists.